1. Early Prose Fragments2. A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff3. Preface to The Borderers4. Conversations with Klopstock5. Essay on Morals6. The Advertisement and Preface to Lyrical Ballads (parallel texts) with the Appendix on Poetic Diction7. The Convention of Cintra

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W. J. B. Owen's scholarly work includes his Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1957), Wordsworth as Critic (1969), Wordsworth's Literary Criticism (1974) and his edition of The Fourteen-Book Prelude for the Cornell Wordsworth (1985). Jane Worthington Smyser is best known for her Wordsworth's Reading of Roman Prose (1946).

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